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Last week, a friend pointed out that I hadn’t written a post since January. Turns out that it is easy to get out of the habit of writing. It kicked me into action and at an interesting time. Travelabulous was recently selected into the Chinese Angel Mentorship Program (CAMP). CAMP is a joint initiative between the Chinese…

As I was running on the treadmill this week, I was thinking about the circumstances that had me preparing to fundraise AND run a marathon. It is not uncommon for me to “gut feel” myself into a position like this only to reflect on what got me here after the fact. It turns out there…

In my last post, I spoke about an obsession on client experience. In this post, I will talk about how this client focus is driving everything we do. We are just starting the fundraising process in earnest. In these meetings, we get asked a lot about our channels and cost of customer acquisition. It is…

We humans are very irrational creatures – even this far down the evolutionary path. I recently finished a course on irrationality that was led by Dan Ariely from Duke University (which already inspired posts on the power of default and the IKEA effect). The course covers other fascinating topics like the pain of paying, the strong attachment to…

OK, although Barcelona is one of my favourite places in the world, this story is one that could apply in pretty much any foreign place on the planet. In this case, it was 2007 and I was in Barcelona for the third time in a relatively short number of years. Each would be worthy of…

As Charles Whelan pointed out in Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, statistics can be either entirely boring or really exciting depending on context. They can also be extremely powerful if used in the correct manner. We now have many responses to the travelabulous travel planning survey, likely thanks to many of you…

Last September, we decided to take a trip to Hawaii and split our time between O’ahu and Maui. Thinking this might be our only time on the island of O’ahu, I figured, why not take the leap and stay at the Pink Palace – the Royal Hawaiian – on Waikiki Beach. Upon waking the first…